Buy local and keep them down on the farm

IT was shocking and sad to see Ireland’s farmers out on their tractors last Monday in protest at falling prices and loss of income.

Rickard Deasy must have been looking down on those farmers with a mixture of sadness and pride ... pride at seeing them taking a stand and demanding action.

The fact that things are so bad that farmers are out on the streets, as they were in 1966, is a sad indictment of this great agricultural country. What was even more shocking to me was to hear an RTÉ reporter covering one of the protests channelling the complaints of the local populace about the inconvenience, etc., when they were “out and about doing their shopping”. Well, maybe those shoppers should take a good look at what is in their shopping bags.